The programmes are directed at building the capacity of the officers to enhance greater efficiency and coordination in delivering government programmes and policies.
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She said government aimed at distributing over 400,000 laptops to both students and lecturers of tertiary institutions by the end of 2016 to inculcate Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in the country’s educational system.
Read more: GH: Tertiary institutions to receive 400,000 laptops by 2016
She specifically urged them to use ICT to ‘revolutionize’ agribusiness in Ghana.
Madam Clarke gave the advice during an interaction with students of the Computer Science Department of Ho Polytechnic in Ho.
Read more: Students advised to use ICT revolutionize agribusiness in Ghana
On his second day of cross examining Dr. Bawumia, Counsel Quarshie-Idun sought to rationalize the occurrence of voting without biometric verification by suggesting that the law and reality meant that certain persons like the disabled were exempt from biometric verification. This ostensibly was to pave way for the EC to justify the over 535,000 people who according to evidence on the face of the pink sheets were allowed to vote across the country without going through biometric verification.
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The exercise, which is scheduled to begin anytime within this third quarter of the year will capture those public sector employees who could not be registered during the main biometric registration exercise carried out by the Ministry last year.
Read more: GH: Mop-up biometric registration exercise for government workers